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Amos Bronson Alcott

Feelings
Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.
3.3 · 15 votes · 185 reads
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Thought and Reason
Our ideals are our better selves.
3.4 · 26 votes · 64 reads
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Society
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
4.2 · 30 votes · 165 reads
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Virtues
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
3.0 · 31 votes · 195 reads
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Society
Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
4.8 · 57 votes · 160 reads
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Art and Culture
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
3.0 · 5 votes · 170 reads
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Nature
The less routine the more life.
4.9 · 49 votes · 156 reads
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Time
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
3.5 · 15 votes · 7 reads
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Art and Culture
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
3.1 · 45 votes · 77 reads
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Defects
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
5.0 · 38 votes · 20 reads
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Society
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
3.6 · 62 votes · 185 reads
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Society
Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.
4.8 · 6 votes · 114 reads
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Time
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
3.7 · 14 votes · 53 reads
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Science and Technology
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.
4.3 · 7 votes · 73 reads
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Various
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
4.1 · 52 votes · 55 reads
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